right i totally understand that were talking about social stigma obviously its not illegal for anyone to use the word and the other commenters in this thread have missed that point but so to clarify more you think filipino people should be able to refer to black people as niggers in a friendly way or only other filipino people for example do you think its ok for a filipino person to say about floyd mayweather this nigger knows how to fight or is that only ok if theyre talking about manny pacquiao